Please join us in congratulating Dr. Eellan Sivanesan, MD, FASA, for his promotion to the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Sivanesan is a physician-scientist and chronic pain specialist nationally recognized for his expertise in the mechanisms of chronic pain and its management with neuromodulatory therapies. He is a remarkable clinician-scientist and a rising star in our field.

Dr. Sivanesan earned his MD from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 2012. After a Transitional Year (internship) at the St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, he completed an Anesthesiology residency and a Pain Medicine fellowship at the University of Miami School of Medicine in the highly selective Clinical-Scientist Training track. Dr. Sivanesan helped establish a cancer pain clinic at the Hunan Tumor Hospital in Changsha, Hunan Province during his fellowship. He also spent 6 months of his Pain Medicine fellowship at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in Miami, an NCI-Designated Cancer Center, to gain specialized training in cancer pain management. In 2017, he was handpicked to join the faculty in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine in the Division of Pain Medicine and Pain Research.

Dr. Sivanesan has achieved remarkable academic success as a clinician-scientist while actively practicing as a highly respected chronic pain clinician and Director of Neuromodulation for the ACCM Pain Division. Dr. Sivanesan has introduced several innovative pain treatment modalities to JHHS, including minimally invasive lumbar decompression, indirect decompression devices/interspinous spacers, temporary peripheral nerve stimulation, and wireless spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulation. Additionally, Dr. Sivanesan is currently the PI on an NIH K08 entitled “Spinal Cord Stimulation for the Attenuation of Chemotherapy- Induced Peripheral Neuropathy and Enhanced Chemotherapeutic Efficacy”. Notably, his career development award was the largest ever granted to an anesthesiologist by the NIH, and only one of two awarded to an anesthesiologist by the NCI. Dr. Sivanesan has shared his work in 54 peer-reviewed research articles, review articles, case reports, editorials, letters, book chapters, and curricula related to pain, anesthesiology, and neuroscience (25 of 54 as first or last author).

This promotion recognizes Dr. Sivanesan’s excellence across all aspects of our tripartite mission of education, clinical care, and discovery.
Congratulations, Eellan!